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单词 centurion
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  • A centurion carried a staff made of a vine-branch, for disciplinary purposes.
  • An urgent demand arose that the customary fees to centurions for granting furlough should be abolished, for they constituted a sort of annual tax upon the common soldier.
  • The cohorts chose each their centurions: two senators were placed at the head of each cohort.
  • The other centurions marched each at the head of his company, glittering with their armour and decorations.
  • When he was centurion, Trajan had summoned him to enter his presence before the prefects, whereupon he said: "It is a shame for you, Caesar, to be talking with a centurion, while the prefects stand outside."

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But it is good to have him in thecenturionclub.
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They believed they were playing a role as centurions in our society against all the dark forces seeking to subvert our society.
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Centuriontanks were on their way.
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Auxiliary centurions risen from the ranks were thus probably less predominant than in the legions.
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If so, the "centenarius" may have been the equivalent of acenturionin the old-style units.
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Thecenturionthen offered, to assuage his shame, to ransom her back to her relatives.
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When therefore those soldiers saw it, they awakened thecenturionand the elders, for they too were close by keeping guard.
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While acenturionled his unit from the front in battle, his "optio" would bring up the rear.
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It would take a ranker a median of 16 years just to reachcenturion-rank and probably the same again to reach "primus pilus".
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Within each cohort, each of its six "centuriae", and thus of its commandingcenturion, was likewise ranked.
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As they mostly rose from the ranks, centurions are compared to modern sergeants-major, the most senior officers without a commission.
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The meliks had their recruit armies headed by "centurions," their own castles and fortresses.
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Peering over the left shoulder of thecenturionis a small face.
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He has a few centurions under him, but he sees them as distractions and rivals rather than as students.
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Centurionis the next-highest rank and probably the most common.
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